It was a night to remember for Swifts coach Scott Carey, picking up the Dellar Medal as the best and fairest for the Horsham District Football League as well as being named as senior coach of the year for the 2017 season.

The second-year coach polled in 13 of a possible 16 games, including seven best on ground performances where he recorded three votes to contribute to being named the 2017 Dellar Medalist.

It was a bit of a surreal feeling.

Scott Carey

Carey blitzed the rest of the competition, recording 12 more votes than Laharum’s Robert Miller in second-place.

The midfielder said he did not expect to win the award.

“It was a bit of a surreal feeling,” he said.

“It is an absolute honour to call myself a Dellar medalist. I never thought it would happen to me.”

The Baggies’ mostly successful 2017 campaign was reflected during the vote count on Monday night, with eleven players registering votes throughout the season.

The 71 votes polled by senior Swifts players was the third most in the league, behind the Southern Mallee Giants and Harrow-Balmoral.